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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 2h
As Cabinet officials (Justice and Defense included) campaign at rallies across the countries for Trump allies -- and the Hatch Act be damned -- @rosenzweigp.bsky.social traces the wider pattern: Trump has drawn the whole of government into a coordinated effort to advance his political interests.
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Using the Power of the Government to Win Elections
The Trump administration is breaking a fundamental promise of political impartiality.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 7h
4/ Fernando Vasquez, an 18-year-old citizen, was on break from work when agents chased and handcuffed him, then put him in their truck. After realizing their mistake, the agents left the teen alone in the woods, with no way to get home. Then they threw his ID out of the truck.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 03/10/2026
Joe Rogers lost his wife and everything he owned when Hurricane Helene swept away his mobile home. Now others are living on the same land. “Ain’t that the definition of insanity: keep doing the same thing, hoping for a different result?" he said. with @theassemblync.bsky.social
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Two Years After Hurricane Helene, People Are Still Allowed to Live in Harm’s Way
The aftermath of Hurricane Helene in North Carolina and the floods in Texas’ Hill Country expose weaknesses in federal and state policies that allow people to live in dangerous areas where homes could...
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 8h
ICE has detained more than 500 U.S. citizens.
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More Than 500 U.S. Citizens Have Been Detained, Including Handcuffed or Held at Gunpoint, in Trump’s Immigration Crackdown — ProPublica
The government doesn’t track how often immigration officers detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve found more than 500 Americans who were held against their will during this Trump administrati...
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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 20h
Seems like if you're going to make a national story out of Hasan Piker, who campaigned a few times with the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, saying Israel causes antisemitism, you should also make a national story out of the favorite intellectual of the US Vice President supporting Hitler.
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Steve Herman @newsguy.bsky.social · 19h
President Trump reverses course and announces that his super PAC will now pay for the TV ads promoting him that have been airing nationwide at taxpayer expense. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/us...
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
11-yo Andrés lived with his dad in Texas—but was deemed “unaccompanied” by ICE and sent to foster care. “They’re kidnapping people’s kids and keeping them in government custody,” a former Biden official told us. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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“You kidnapped my son”
ICE is now separating children from their parents and deeming them “unaccompanied.”
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Absent major institutional reforms that turn us into a multiparty democracy, totally transform SCOTUS, & significantly rein in the imperial presidency, this is the <best case> scenario of what is going to happen. Other, more permanent authoritarian scenarios are also possible.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 04/10/2026
British banker who exposed Howard Lutnick's ties to Epstein has died, allegedly from suicide.
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How US commerce secretary's Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblower
Simon Andriesz made the discovery about Howard Lutnick in publicly released Epstein files.
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
José Javier Rodríguez tears into the Florida GOP's prisons scam. bsky.app/profile/acyn...
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Jigar Shah @jigarshahdc.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The cheapest, fastest tools already exist, and they sit waiting for our culture and norms to change.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Just a reminder that these Haitian immigrants in Springfield -- who came here legally, did everything they were asked to do and more -- became a target of federal crackdowns because the white nationalist vice president shamelessly spread racist lies about them.
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J.D. Vance Defends False Claims Against Haitians: 'If I Have to Create Stories… That's What I'm Going to Do'
J.D. Vance defended his debunked claims that Haitian immigrants are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio.
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Sameer Ashar @sameer-ashar.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is my nephew, please forward to your networks, esp any University of Maryland students.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.
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Patrick Chovanec @prchovanec.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Somehow we’ve survived 250 years with the military not being called in to oversee elections.
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Mr. Dan Zak @mrdanzak.com · 04/10/2026
A Haitian man legally immigrated to Ohio, then was given an ankle monitor bc Trump withdrew his status. He threw himself in front of truck. The trucker, who voted for Trump, is haunted. “Pierre was doing what he was supposed to do. We did not do right by him.” www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...
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A Reckoning in Springfield
A truck driver out on his route confronts what the country has become.
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Kate Sills @katelynsills.com · 04/10/2026
When I lived in the Bay Area, there were streets with a ton of glass on the ground. Those were the streets where you didn't want to park overnight or have anything in the car, because car thieves would break your window. I think most people can see that this is a failed state. This isn't normal.
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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Voter registration deadlines are SUNDAY in Alaska, Rhode Island, South Carolina. And MONDAY in: Arizona, Arkansas Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, and *Texas*. If you live in these states, verify your registration now, literally.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A group of interfaith leaders in California is marching 96 miles from an ICE processing center in the Mojave Desert to Downtown L.A. to protest ICE and demand a shutdown of "all detention centers."
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I am concerned that a big win in November will be interpreted as a template for the future and induce short-term thinking. I need public voices of consequence to get politicians to focus on long-term problems and not give permission for the reversion to "normal" politics. (6/6)
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If there is a Blue Wave that crashes over places like Iowa and Kansas, diesel prices will be a key "ingredient" that has nothing to do with the Democrats. It will not be something they can count on in the future. It is part of a "recipe" that cannot be duplicated in future elections. 3/6).
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
A "recipe" is something that can be purposefully replicated in the future simply by acquiring the right ingredients. But to continue with the metaphor, future Dems can't run down to the store and procure a highly unpopular president and force the Rs to nominate bad candidates. (2/6)
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I don't want to denigrate the excellent work that Nate Cohn does, but man, I truly hate the "recipe" metaphor here. (1/6) www.nytimes.com/2026/10/03/u...
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Democrats May Have Found the Recipe for Flipping Red-State Senate Seats (Gift Article)
Five new Times/Siena polls continue a run of strong results for Democrats in states that President Trump won easily in 2024.
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Steven L. Taylor @sltaylor.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
If both DSA types and moderate Dems win House seats, what's the lesson? I point this out because I see another round of "messaging" debates coming when the real discussion needs to be about small-d democratic reforms while big-D Dems have power- not thinking a recipe has been discovered. (5/6)
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
WASHINGTON (AP) — Court prohibits Trump administration from building border wall in Texas’ Big Bend region, for now.
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Scott L Greer @scottlgreer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is as close as anything to the molten core of modern democracy: can legislators and laws bind executives? That question has been the motive force of a lot of revolutions, democratic collapses, and democratization
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 02/10/2026
UPDATE: Netflix has renewed "A Different World!" That's such a great opportunity for the show and the writers, and I hope it gives them the vote of confidence to be even more ambitious next season. (And also to ditch that god-awful color grading, PLEASE 😩)
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'A Different World' spends too much time mining nostalgia
Don't blame critics for identifying flaws. It's part of the job.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Suuuuper interesting, I was not tracking this. The judge found the law criminalizing noncitizen voting is a voter qualification statute, and therefore outside of Congress’s power. Surprisingly, this is an issue of first impression! Decision is here: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The best reading of the actual statute that underpins this criminal case yields an inescapable
conclusion: 18 U.S.C. S 611 is a voter qualification statute, and the Constitution does not authorize
Congress to legislate voter qualifications for federal elections. Except for very specific constitutional
provisions (that cannot support this statute; we will go through them, Congress has no power to say
who can vote or who cannot vote in federal elections-that foundational power is reserved for the States,
and limits Congress.
Some legal principles are so fundamental that they form American constitutional bedrock, and
this case reveals a big one: When you're prosecuted based on a law that Congress did not have the
authority to pass, the prosecution cannot stand. That principle in federal law harkens back to cases
like Marbury v. Madison, 5 U.S. 137, 180 (1803), and United States v. Hudson, 11 U.S. 32, 34 (1812), and
has had explicit and unbroken support in criminal cases since Ex Parte Siebold, 100 U.S. 371, 376-77
(1879) ("An unconstitutional law is void, and is as no law. An offence created by it is not a crime. A
conviction under it is not merely erroneous, but is illegal and void, and cannot be a legal cause of
imprisonment."). The principle is so fundamental that it even predates our constitutional republic; it
lies at the very heart of our constitutional heritage. See, e.g., Bayard v. Singleton, 1 N.C. 5, 9-10 (1787) (striking down a legislative act as unconstitutional and holding that a court cannot enforce an
unconstitutional law in any type of proceeding). This principle acts as a shield for every person facing
criminal prosecution in the United States, citizen and non-citizen alike. That shield protects the
Defendant here, and none of the Government's arguments break through it.
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Cora Neas, ghost reporter @corabora.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I spoke with Stanford senior fellow Eugene Volokh about this; Tracey is factually wrong about the case law. There's no clear rule for when courts should allow pseudonyms, and it's hardly a norm: “There’s a big picture norm that usually people have to be named. That is well settled."
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Cornell case sparks debate over pseudonyms in lawsuits, but case law ‘deeply unsettled’
The decision typically seeks to balance the interests of the public and defendant(s) with the plaintiff’s interests.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is huge: a judge ruled a Flock search was 'indiscriminate mass surveillance' and unconstitutional. Says the search by a cop, who did it because a passing car had a plate from a different state, violated the driver's rights. Meaning, Flock should require a warrant www.404media.co/federal-judg...
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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional
Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.
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Eoin Higgins @eoinhiggins.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
oh! okay, that sounds good then
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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America's Voice @americasvoice.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Another death in ICE custody, a 21-year-old who died by suicide after his mother was detained, and the Supreme Court allowing third-country deportations to resume for now. These are not isolated stories. Read our new #AbuseOfPowerWatch newsletter by @yunao08.bsky.social for more.
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Abuse of Power Watch - October 2nd
A weekly collection of articles and stories of the federal government’s abuses of power.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
“In a letter he wrote before his death, Samuel expressed his deteriorating mental health, stating that his mother’s detention was his ‘one last wall.’ He also addressed the ICE agent who took his mother, saying, ‘I hope it was worth it.’” #AbuseofPowerWatch
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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Cannot be emphasised enough that Trump II will plausibly cause the kind of death count we associate with the worst dictatorships of the last century. Unspeakably bad that he came to be president of the world's most powerful nation.
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Parkscope Joe @parkscopejoe.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
This is insane.
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NEW: According to a bombshell report in the New York Times, Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah threatened to walk out of Pope Leo XIV's Al encyclical launch in May because the pope rejected the idea that machines can be conscious.
Olah's team then privately lobbied the pope's advisers "to take the possibility of model consciousness seriously." Pope Leo XIV held firm.
For months, Anthropic has wined and dined theologians and religious scholars under nondisclosure agreements, hoping they would bless the idea that Claude has moral standing.
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Bobby Allyn @bobbyallyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Meet Thomas, a 35-year-old who got hooked to FanDuel and DraftKings in the pandemic, ended up $50,000 in the red. He filed for bankruptcy and signed up for a Pennsylvania registry that banned him from using betting apps.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/10/2026
not that you should expect anything more than rank idiocy from this pair of racists, but the idea that whiteness means a "high trust" society of "social cohesion" is some of the stupidest shit i have ever heard. these people live in a fantasy land that you could dispel by simply opening a book.
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Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing
To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 02/10/2026
NEW: We learned that the rules for starting a private school vary wildly across states. Some require background checks and specific qualifications. Others invite anyone with a dream and a pulse. See where your state draws the line. Take our quiz and share your results ⤵️
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It’s Easy to Start a Private School. Take Our Quiz to Find Out Where You Can Open Yours. — ProPublica
Private school requirements vary wildly across states. Take our quiz to find out just how easy starting one can be.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Every one of these guys is thinking the same thing: how much money can I extract from giving Defense contracts to the tech industry? Even the govt officials are calculating when to make the jump over to the vendors they are nominally going to be buying from.
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Anjali Dayal @anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"Keeperman offered a tortured tautology about why the south Asian college kids cheering a comeback victory for the Longhorns—some of whom were wearing cowboy hats & throwing up the “Hook ‘em Horns” hand sign—were not properly “assimilated” into American culture"
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
if you've been wondering how thin the commitment to the cultural is as an. 'alternative' to explicit racism of the more clearly segregationist sort, consider the implications of "the mere fact of us being able to notice" that someone is of South Asian heritage as ruling our assimilation
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group and the USS Makin Island Amphibious Group are headed to the Middle East. ... A U.S. official told the Associated Press that some 7,000 sailors and 2,000 U.S. Marines were on their way as part of the deployment."
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Live Updates: Trump vows Iran war will end "right after the election" or sooner, as 9,000 troops head to Mideast
Some 9,000 more U.S. forces head for the Middle East as Trump vows the war will end "right after the election," if not sooner.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
They're holding up a major escalation in Iran and a crackdown on abortion until after the midterms to limit political damage. To the extent that the last two years have been a right-wing smash-and-grab operation, the next two will be worse.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Renee Good's family filed two lawsuits today. The first, against, USG, is a standard wrongful death. The second is a Klan Act lawsuit against Jonathan Ross, AND STEPHEN MILLER and Greg Bovino. It names Nick Shirley and Christopher Rufo as non-party co-conspirators for their racist propaganda.
44. At all relevant times, Defendants Ross, Miller, Noem, Lyons, Homan,
Bovino, and the John Doe Federal Agents acted under color of federal law and within the
scope of a joint enterprise with the private actors described below. Defendant
Lewandowski acted in part under color of federal law and in part, as alleged below, as a
private person, his federal status having been limited to a temporary part-time designation
that his conduct exceeded. Shirley, Rufo, and Ben Bergquam, and the other non-party
private actors described below, agreed to and in fact participated in the conspiracy alleged
here: each acted in concert with, and with the knowledge and encouragement of, federal
officials.
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Sen. Ron Wyden warns that unaccompanied kids detained at and deported from the new ICE facility at the airport in Louisiana are put at risk of trafficking. www.thequeenzone.com/exclusive-to...
Sen. Ron Wyden warns that unaccompanied kids detained at and deported from the new ICE facility at the airport in Louisiana are put at risk of trafficking. 

https://www.thequeenzone.com/exclusive-top-senate-dem-responds-to-christian-faith-groups-plea-for-oversight-of-new-ice-facility-for-kids/
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Nancy Levine Stearns @nancylevinestearns.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
New ICE Facility to Hold Unaccompanied Immigrant Children at Airport “The facility will be managed by the LaSalle Family Foundation, the nonprofit arm of LaSalle Corrections, a private prison company” that operates other facilities where detainees have died. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/u...
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New Facility at Louisiana Airport to Hold Immigrant Children and Families (Gift Article)
The site in Alexandria, La., a major expansion of the Trump administration’s busiest deportation hub, will streamline and accelerate removals.
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Rep. Aftyn Behn @aftynbehn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Rep. Behn is calling on Governor Lee to issue an immediate reprieve for Gary Sutton and every scheduled execution following tonight’s botched execution of Christa Pike. aftynbehnfortnpress.substack.com/p/rep-behn-c...
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Chuck Grassley also did not share the texts with Democratic senators before the hearing, breaking protocol.
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